Brian Massumi - Citizendia

Western Philosophy 20th- / 21st-century philosophy
Name	Brian Massumi
Birth
School/tradition	Postmodern philosophy
Main interests	the virtual
Influenced by	Deleuze · Guattari · Lyotard

Brian Massumi is an academic, writer and social critic. Western philosophy is a term that refers to philosophical thinking in the Western or Occidental world, as distinct from Eastern or Oriental philosophies See also [[Analytic philosophy]] and [[Continental philosophy]] The 20th century brought with it upheavals that produced a series of conflicting developments within Philosophy See also [[Analytic philosophy]] and [[Continental philosophy]] Contemporary philosophy is the period in the history of philosophy that began at the end of the nineteenth Postmodern philosophy' is a philosophical direction which is critical of the foundational assumptions and structures of philosophy The term virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations and also differing denotations Gilles Deleuze ( (January 18 1925 &ndash November 4 1995 was a French philosopher of the late 20th century Pierre-Félix Guattari ( April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French Militant, institutional Psychotherapist Jean-François Lyotard (ʒɑ̃ fʀɑ̃swa ljɔˈtaʀ August 10 1924 April 21 1998) was a French philosopher and literary He teaches in the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal. Massumi focuses on the philosophies of communication, electronic art, computer-aided design, architecture and the virtual. Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of Electronic media or more broadly refers to Technology and/or Electronic media The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation The term virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations and also differing denotations

Massumi is also known for English-language translations of recent French philosophy, including Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition (with Geoffrey Bennington) and Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. Jean-François Lyotard (ʒɑ̃ fʀɑ̃swa ljɔˈtaʀ August 10 1924 April 21 1998) was a French philosopher and literary The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge (1979 is a short but influential Philosophy book by Jean-François Lyotard in which he analyses the Geoffrey Bennington (born 1956 is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature Emory University, as well as a member of the International Gilles Deleuze ( (January 18 1925 &ndash November 4 1995 was a French philosopher of the late 20th century Pierre-Félix Guattari ( April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French Militant, institutional Psychotherapist A Thousand Plateaus ( Mille Plateaux) (1980 is a book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst

Brian Massumi is involved in the Art&D Laboratory of the Society for Arts and Technology. With colleague Thierry Bardini, he directs the Radical Empiricism laboratory at the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal. Thierry Bardini is a French Sociologist who did all his academic career outside France He also collaborates with Erin Manning, from Concordia University's Sense Lab. Concordia University is a comprehensive Public university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Works as author:

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Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002)
A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992)
First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (with Kenneth Dean; Autonomedia, 1993)

Works as editor:

A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2002)
The Politics of Everyday Fear (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

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